AWTA. Forget comparing averages, the current lots hits fewer tons and there are fewer players who are capable of going past 1000+ in a season. The current back-ups just don't score as many runs as the back-up we saw in the 90's/00's, it's really that simple.

Siddons is a great example; in any other time, he'd have played 50+ Tests and would have been a massive boost whenever Australia went to India. Imagine if he was 25 now.

Strauss is in good nick Burge...gave us wicket away because Monty needed time in the middle

Given that Australia's finest are incapable of getting Monty out, I fully expect to awake to some special numbers in the morning

Or maybe I'll be the next injury reported when Burgey gets a hit put out on me for my posting in this forum

He was in good nick four years ago too. Look ****, our finest weren't in Hobart yesterday, they were either bowling elsewhere or having a spell (not an England off the field for 10 minutes to be coached spell, but a proper rest).

Your proper agony starts next week. Sitting up all night - FMD, you'll be wanting to get back to bed by lunch day one.

Do we really?
I think Australia's Test-class batting depth is probably at its lowest point for about fifteen years at the moment. Khawaja aside, all the batsmen in the country who I'd back to average 40 in Tests in the short term are either in the team already, have been blacklisted by the selectors or are in poor form.

Agree to a certain extent, but still things aren't that bad, since flat decks and **** bowling attacks are a norm these days at the international level, therefore the younger batsmen are unlikely to find it that difficult.
#Hughes
#Ferguson
#Khawaja
#Cosgrove
#Smith
#Bailey
#Finch
These are batsmen I expect to average 40 plus if given a decent run at the test level.

Agree to a certain extent, but still things aren't that bad, since flat decks and **** bowling attacks are a norm these days at the international level, therefore the younger batsmen are unlikely to find it that difficult.
#Hughes
#Ferguson
#Khawaja
#Cosgrove
#Smith
#Bailey
#Finch
These are batsmen I expect to average 40 plus if given a decent run at the test level.